13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
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And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)God here goes on to threaten what he would do with this treacherous idolatrous people; and he warns that he may not wound, he threatens that he may not strike. If he turn not, he will whet his sword (Ps. 7:12); but, if he turn, he will sheathe it. They did not turn, and therefore all this came upon them: and its being threatened before shows that it was the execution of a divine sentence upon them…
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